The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act

Liability when person using unauthorisedly cannot be identified

Liability when water runs to waste

Charges recoverable in addition to penalties

Charge on occupier for water, how determined

“Owner‟s rate”

Amount of owner‟s rate

Owner‟s rate, when not chargeable

When occupier is -to pay both owner‟s rate and occupier‟s rate

Power to make rules for apportioning owner‟s rate

When owner is to pay „owner‟s rate

Effect of introduction of canal-irrigation on landlord‟s right to enhance

Water-rate by whom payable, when charged on land held by several owners


OF WATER-RATES


If water supplied through a
water-course be used in an unauthorised manner, and if the person by whose act or neglect such use has
occurred cannot be identified,

the person on whose land such water has flowed if such land has derived benefit therefrom,

or if such person cannot be identified or if such land has not derived benefit therefrom, all
the persons chargeable in respect of the water supplied through such water-course, shall be
liable, or jointly liable, as the case may be, to the charges made for such use.


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# 33 Liability when person using unauthorisedly cannot be identified